Flattery Quotes
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.
I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.
Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.
Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.
People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.